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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US lost a war to Vietnamese nationalists that adopted the trappings of Communism in order to get materiel support from China. They rejected it, and China, as soon as possible

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Vietnam is a unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic, one of the two communist states (the other being Laos) in Southeast Asia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam

Wer're Sorry Try Again

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The economy of Vietnam is a developing mixed socialist-oriented market economy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Vietnam

That doesn't sound very communist to me, and I've heard plenty of times that a mixed economy isn't a socialist one at all.

Or is that only when it's a European country?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the Revolution hasn’t happened

conclusion first, then cherry picked the points in history that supported his conclusion

you hear those self-aware wolves howling?